George Pantis voted to leave Brexit and he split with his wife over it. Now in a relationship with Brenda, the forceful woman next door, George is beginning to regret things. When he apparently wins a fortune on a Kosovan lottery he barely remembers entering he suddenly finds that he is getting lots of mail and telephone calls. Sensible SID, his son, tells him it is a scam and not to divulge his password to anyone, that's fine because George can't remember it himself.
Lewycka is one of my favourite writers but I have to be in the right mood to read her and I expect that is the same for many potential readers. Lewycka's books are madcap romps with wildly exaggerated characters and a wicked sense of humour. Here a complex slapstick plot involving money laundering, eastern european mafia etc is set in Sheffield and pulls in lots of references to Brexit. If one allows oneself to go with the flow it is just a hilarious tale! ( )